In Search of the Miraculous

look through my notes and drawings of G.'s diagrams which with G.'s permission I

had preserved since St. Petersburg. My attention was particularly attracted by the

enneagram. The explanation of the enneagram had clearly not been finished and I felt that there were in it hints at a possible continuation. I very soon saw that a

continuation must be sought in connection with the wrong situation of the "shock"

which came into the enneagram at the interval sol-la. Then I turned my

attention to what the Moscow notes, in connection with commentaries on the

enneagram, said about the influences of the three octaves on one another in

the "food diagram." I drew the enneagram as it had been given to us and I

saw that it represented up to a certain point the "food diagram."

The point 3, or the "interval" mi-fa, was the place where the "shock" came in which gave do 192 of the second octave. When I added the beginning of

this octave to the enneagram I saw that the point 6 came at the "interval" mifa of the second octave and the "shock" in the form of the third octave do 48

which begins at this point. The completed drawing of the octaves came out

as follows:

This signified that there was no wrong place for a "shock" at all. Point 6 showed the entry of the "shock" in the second octave and the "shock" was the do which began the third octave. All three octaves reached Hi 2. In one it was si, in the second sol, and in the third mi. The second octave which ended at 12 in the enneagram ought to have

gone on further. But si 12 and mi 12 required an "additional shock." I thought a great deal about the nature of these "shocks" at that time but I will speak of them later.

I felt that there was very much material in the enneagram. Points 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8

represented, according to the "food diagram," different "systems" of the organism, 1—

the digestive system; 2—the breathing system;

4—the blood stream; 5—the brain; 7—the spinal cord; 8—the sympathetic system and

the sex organs. According to this the direction of the inner lines 1428571, that is, the

content of fraction 7, showed the direction of the flow or distribution of arterial blood in the organism and then its return in the form of venous blood. It was particularly

interesting that the point of return was not the heart but the digestive system which indeed is the case since venous blood is first of all mixed with the products of

digestion, it then goes to the right auricle, through the right ventricle, then to the lungs to absorb oxygen, and from there goes to the left auricle and then the left ventricle and then through the aorta into the arterial system.

Examining the enneagram further I saw that the seven points could represent the

seven planets of the ancient world; in other words the enneagram could be an

astronomical symbol. And when I took the order of the planets in the order of the days

of the week I obtained the following picture:

I did not try to go any further as I did not have the necessary books to hand and

there was very little time.

"Events" gave no time to go into philosophical speculations. One had to think about living, that is to say, simply and quite plainly to think about where one could live and

work. The revolution and everything connected with it aroused in me deep physical

disgust. At the same time, in spite of my sympathy with the "whites" I could not believe in their success. The bolsheviks did not hesitate to promise things that neither

they nor anyone else could perform. In this was their principal strength. It was

something in which nobody could compete with them. In addition to this they had the

support of Germany, who saw in them a possibility of revenge in the future. The

volunteer army, which had freed us from the bolsheviks, was able to fight them and

conquer them. But it was not able to organize in a proper way the course of life in the

liberated provinces. Its leaders had neither program, knowledge, nor experience in this

direction. Of course this could not be demanded of them. But facts are facts. The

situation was very unstable and the wave which was still rolling towards Moscow at

the time could be rolled back again any day.

It was necessary to get abroad. I had marked down London as my final aim. First

because I knew more people there and second because I thought that among the

English I should find the greater response and a greater interest in the new ideas I now

had, than anywhere else. Besides, when I was in London on my way to India before

the war and on my return voyage at the beginning of the war I had decided to go there

to write and publish my book, which had been begun in 1911, under the title of The

Wisdom of the Cods, and which subsequently appeared under the title of A New Model of the Universe. As a matter of fact this book, in which I touched upon questions of religion and in particular upon methods for studying the New Testament, could not

have been published in Russia.